Projects

Establishment of food testing laboratory in Assam

September 20, 2016

| Ongoing project

| Microbes

The objectives are to: (i) analyze the samples from licensed food business operators and other stakeholders; (ii) reduce the transportation time of food samples; (iii) ensure compliance of domestic/international safety standards on food produced and consumed in the region; (iv) assist the authority establish during surveillance for monitoring food safety; (v)

Economics of adaptation: assessing incremental and transformative change

September 19, 2016

| Ongoing project

The CARIAA programme has issued a call for concept notes to fund activities that further collaboration and co-production across consortia and offer new opportunities to progress towards the programme’s overall objectives. This concept note is in response to this call and is submitted on behalf of the cross-CARIAA working group on economics.

PNB Rooftop Solar PMC

September 1, 2016

| Ongoing project

| Energy

TERI will offer a full range of project management consultancy services in the installation of rooftop solar PV systems at all the Farmers' Training Centres --- from feasibility study and site assessment to third-party inspection and post-installation monitoring.

Improving Sustainable Energy Access among SC/ST households in Chamarajanagar District of Karnataka – A pilot study

September 1, 2016

| Ongoing project

| Energy | Energy Access

In this project, 250 Integrated Domestic Energy Systems (cook-stoves, solar home lights, and mobile charging facilities) and 500 low-cost forced draft cook-stoves would be disseminated through local level entrepreneurship model. Awareness and training programmes would also be organized and technical know-how would be provided to village level energy entrepreneurs and end-users of cook-stoves.

Documenting the biodiversity of flora and fauna of a North Goa island

August 30, 2016

| Ongoing project

| Environment | Forest & Biodiversity

A peek into how the local people connect with the flora and fauna in the largest estuarine island of Goa

Climate EduXchange - 2016 - 2017

August 1, 2016

| Ongoing project

| Environment | Climate Change

The focus of the Climate EduXchange, Phase 8 (2016-17) is based on the National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) launched by the Governmnet of India in 2015, which aims at imparting basic ICT skills to children studying in schools and ensure access to information, knowledge, and skills through the use of digital technologies.

Ericulture for upliftment of socio-economic condition of rural women in tribal villages of Assam

July 27, 2016

| Ongoing project

| Sustainable Agriculture | Environment

Eri silkworm (Philosamia ricini) has been practiced in Assam from time immemorial in the rural areas particularly by the tribal section. Ericulture is a household activity practiced mainly for protein rich pupae, a delicacy for the tribal. Eri is a multivoltine silk spun from open-ended cocoons and is the only completely domesticated non-mulberry variety.

Hotwiring microbial communities for enhanced unconventional gas production

July 10, 2016

| Ongoing project

| Microbes | Environment

In this project our objective is to exploit recent discoveries in direct electron transfer to methanogenic Archaea and the role of thermophilic temperatures on biological methane production from coal to enhance production rates and yield.

Mass multiplication of Chironji (Buchnania lanzan) through plant tissue culture

July 4, 2016

| Ongoing project

| Sustainable Agriculture

Development of technology for mass Multiplication of selected Chironji genotypes through micropropagation and distribution to tribal beneficiary.

Assistance to FOR for Implementation of Model Regulations for Forecasting, Scheduling, and Deviation Settlement of Wind and Solar generating stations at the state Level

July 1, 2016

| Ongoing project

| Energy

The main purpose of this consultancy support is to provide technical inputs/expert advice to the Technical Committee of Forum of Regulators (FOR) in the matters related to development of deviation settlement mechanism, forecasting and scheduling framework, ancillary services mechanism at state level.